Henry Moore Quotes

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

It's a visual world and people respond to visuals.

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

Men are visual creatures.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of the world and direct our attention to certain things around us. In other words, they help us learn how to see.

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.

Oceans of emotion can be transmitted through a text message, an emoji sequence, and a winking semicolon, but humans are hardwired to respond to visuals.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

Image is an international language.

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Style is the image of character.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye.

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works.

It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?'

The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.